I love Jefferson. I'm very aware of his stance on Church and state. You may ascribe to him deism, Unitarianism or rational religiosity. It's fairly apparent in all of his letters that he was railing against organized religion and for clear separation of church funded by the state. I think we can agree that Jefferson didn't want a theocracy, and didn't want blind loyalty. He even called himself Christian a time or two. He believes in a creator God and follows Jesus' moral teaching.
Often times though, tirades go askew to the point people assert that you can't be rational and a Christian and believe in Free will, so I was just setting that point up in conversation for future reference.</side-track>
Please continue with patriotism, free will, and religion in school discussion.
Often times though, tirades go askew to the point people assert that you can't be rational and a Christian and believe in Free will, so I was just setting that point up in conversation for future reference.</side-track>
Please continue with patriotism, free will, and religion in school discussion.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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